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How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments

How Marriage Became One of the Sacraments

Reynolds, Philip

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Series: Law and Christianity

General ChristianityGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1316509397
ISBN13: 9781316509395
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 13 2018
Pages: 1076
Weight: 3.12
Height: 2.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Among the contributions of the medieval church to western culture was the idea that marriage was one of the seven sacraments, which defined the role of married folk in the church. Although it had ancient roots, this new way of regarding marriage raised many problems, to which scholastic theologians applied all their ingenuity. By the late Middle Ages, the doctrine was fully established in Christian thought and practice but not yet as dogma. In the sixteenth century, with the entire Catholic teaching on marriage and celibacy and its associated law and jurisdiction under attack by the Protestant reformers, the Council of Trent defined the doctrine as a dogma of faith for the first time but made major changes to it. Rather than focusing on a particular aspect of intellectual and institutional developments, this book examines them in depth and in detail from their ancient precedents to the Council of Trent.

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